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description: Vivid example: in Toronto, Mum is on the phone with her friend: "And you'll never guess what Karen's — actually, no. Who acts: Mum, you. A sentence of the lesson «How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its de
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# How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face, sentence 3

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Vivid example: in Toronto, Mum is on the phone with her friend: "And you'll never guess what Karen's — actually, no.

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**Who acts:** Mum, you · **What happens:** be, not guess · **To what, where:** phone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How to handle gossip: is it true, is it kind, would I say it to their face» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mum, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:049-how-to-handle-gossip.lesson:3
# text = Vivid example: in Toronto, Mum is on the phone with her friend: "And you'll never guess what Karen's — actually, no.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 049-how-to-handle-gossip.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Vivid	vivid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	dislocated	_	_
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Mum	mum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	phone	phone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	ccomp	_	_
23	Karen	Karen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	—	-	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
26	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	no.	no	INTJ	UH	_	11	parataxis	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: warn
- voice: character
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Mum |  |  | the phone |  | in Toronto; with person's friend; Vivid example *dislocated* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **guess** *in a quote* | future | you |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:adult-life:049-how-to-handle-gossip.lesson:3`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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